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List Price : $19.99 Price : $8.75
List Price : $19.99 Price : $8.75
Product Description
ENG NA DVD BOX CD
- Dynamic weather system based on realistic atmospheric physics, with true three-dimensional clouds that form and dissipate
- Worldwide scenery with accurate 3D terrain and auto-gen objects that fill in the world with appropriate buildings and vegetation
- Enhanced interactive air traffic control (ATC), including traffic at all airports around the world
- Improved support for 3D graphics hardware acceleration in multiple windows and across multiple monitors
- For 1 or more players over LAN or Internet
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight Reviews
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight Reviews
| 376 of 385 people found the following review helpful  Excellent flightsim - one of the best sims on the market, By = Fun: This review is from: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight (CD-ROM) I am in love with aviation, and therefore FS has become a part of my computing experience. I purchased FS 1998, and though it was a tolerable product, I in no way felt that it was a great simulation of flight. It just didn't have the look and feel of flight. However, I was blown away by the progress made in FS 2002. Though the clouds were not always realistic (modeling gave them a two-dimension look that was disconcerting to say the least), I thought that the overall experience was pretty good.I saw FS 2004, and I thought it was probably mot much of an improvement based on reviews I had read. Let me just say that the first reviews I read were wrong. FS 2004 is a major improvement over FS 2002, and it stands as a all-time great product for aviation buffs like me. Improvements: 1. Weather: for the first time, flying on FS2004 simulates almost perfectly the experience of actually flying. Clouds have the mist look when you fly through them. The weather systems... Read more 295 of 306 people found the following review helpful  The new state-of-the-art flight sim for PC, By = Fun: This review is from: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight (CD-ROM) My qualifications: More than 3000 hrs of real world flight time, Commercial, Instrument, Multi-Engine and Flight Instructor certificates, and an incalculable amount of my life spent "flying" every major flight sim ever made for the PC, starting with the original MS Flight Simulator on an Apple IIe in 1983. For whatever it's worth, folks, I'm an expert on this subject.FS-2004 Century of Flight is the new state of the art, the new gold standard. By itself, this software is worth going out and buying a new, hot PC just so you can fly it. If this is your first flight sim experience, you'll have fun just doing loops and looking at the pretty scenery. But here's the truth: the more aviation experience you have, the more you will appreciate this sim. Quite frankly, I can't think of a single significant element of the real-world flying experience that isn't precisely modeled and simulated in FS-2004. Want to climb in the 172 and practice NDB... Read more 57 of 59 people found the following review helpful Good Sim, But Remember the "Sim" Part!, By This review is from: Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight (CD-ROM) I have been using flight simulators since MS Flight Simulator 4.0, and have more diverse experience than only Microsoft's offering to call upon. While any simulator can be made quite realistic with the latest hardware and enough money, it is important to note that Microsoft's offering is no different - you cannot, as they say, make a silk purse out of a pig's ear. This means that if you're running an underpowered system, you will not be able to run the simulation optimally.Published system requirements: * Pentium 450 or greater processor * 64 MB RAM for 98/Me, 128 MB RAM for 2000/XP * 8 MB/3-D with DirectX 7.0 or later videocard * 1.8 GB hard drive space My recommendation: * P4 2.x GHz processor; the faster, the better * 512MB RAM, with ideally 1GB under the hood * 128MB / 256MB AGP video card that pushes TONS of pixels - the more, the better * At least 5GB free hard drive... Read more |
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